Top 84 George Meredith Quotes
#1. She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
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#3. How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
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#4. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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#5. There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
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#6. Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
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#7. Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
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#9. When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks ... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
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#10. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.
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#11. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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#14. Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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#16. Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,
I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
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#18. I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
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#19. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
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#20. The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
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#21. And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
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#22. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
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#23. The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
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#24. Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
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#25. Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
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#27. The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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#28. Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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#29. Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
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#30. Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
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#32. She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
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#33. The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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#34. What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
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#38. A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ...
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#39. Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.
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#40. We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
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#41. There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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#42. The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
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#43. Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
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#44. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
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#45. Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
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#46. George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
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#49. Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
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#51. A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
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#52. The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
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#53. Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
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#54. The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
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#56. For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which over flows
To lift us with him as he goes.
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#57. The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
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#58. Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
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#61. But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
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#62. Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
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#63. A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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#65. It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!
don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
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#66. Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment
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#67. Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.
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#68. We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF)
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#70. Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.
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#73. See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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#75. I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.
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#76. Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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#77. The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
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#78. Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
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#79. Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
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#80. A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
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#82. It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him
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#84. Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.
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